Category Archives: Mental Health News

Reporting on mental health crisis support Mental health service users and carers told us that support in crisis was an important issue to them. As part of our research project into people’s experiences of crisis support in North Tyneside we heard from 215 service users, carers and staff. We heard experiences of: waiting times and accessing…

Welcome to the 26 November edition of our weekly ebulletin that contains lots of updates, news and views. We are reviewing the Members’ Manifesto and are asking members to share their thoughts and comments on what needs updating or adding by answering a few questions via a short survey. The manifesto supports our influencing work at a…

Committee meeting — in public Wednesday 19 December, 10am to 12 noon, at Commercial Union House, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle This meeting is held in public, where there will be an opportunity to ask questions about the agenda. Please contact us in advance if you wish to attend. Also let us know if you have any…

Welcome to the 20 November edition of our weekly ebulletin that contains lots of updates, news and views. We are reviewing the Members’ Manifesto and are asking members to share their thoughts and comments on what needs updating or adding by answering a few questions via a short survey. The manifesto supports our influencing work at a…

Welcome to the 12 November edition of our weekly ebulletin that contains lots of updates, news and views. If you don’t receive this bulletin directly from us but would like to, you can become a member and sign up for it here. Do email us if you have any news or information that you would like included in…

Breaking a World Record to shine a light on young people’s mental health We are officially Guinness World Record holders! To shine a light on young people’s mental health, we have broken the world record for the largest ever ultraviolet painting. Artist Livi Gosling worked with our Activists to create an image showing that mental health is…

Welcome to the 05 November edition of our weekly ebulletin that contains lots of updates, news and views. If you don’t receive this bulletin directly from us but would like to, you can become a member and sign up for it here. Do email us if you have any news or information that you would like included in…

What matters to you? Complete our Healthwatch survey Tell us about your experiences of health and social care If you live in North Tyneside or use local services then we want to hear from you. Our short survey gives you the opportunity to tell us about all the services, what’s good and what could be better….

Welcome to the 29 October edition of our weekly ebulletin that contains lots of updates, news and views. Last week we met in Derby for our annual Members’ Event ‘The Future of Peer Support’. The event was recorded and updates provided on Twitter via #NSUNEvent18. See more below. The UK Autumn Budget will be presented by Philip…

Access to primary care services for people who are housebound One of our priorities this year is to look at how easy it is for people to use their GP, dentist, optician or pharmacy when they are housebound. We have designed a survey that aims to find out: a) If housebound people are finding it easy…